McIntosh v. Wales’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1996 · most notably 169 Ill. 2d 504 - Swick v. Liautaud (1996), 15 N.J. Super. 139 - Mayflower Industries v. Thor Corp. (1951)
32 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Israel v. Brooks · McIntire v. Levering · Cosfriff Bros. v. Miller · Krug v. Ward · Woodworth v. Mills
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essential elements necessary to be shown by the petition and evidence in an action for malicious prosecution are (1) the institution of the proceedings; (2) without probable cause; (3) with malice; (4) that the proceedings have terminated and in plaintiff’s favor; (5) damage to plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Penton v. Canning
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.